Upright Brand helps founders grow their business. Established by Erik Fabian, a former senior brand marketer at Moleskine and Greenhouse Software, our approach is based on research into the strategies and tactics startups need at each stage of growth.

Startup With Confidence

If you could help every customer live a more connected, meaningful life…would you need anything else to grow a successful business?

Answer three questions to get started more confidently.*

Who Are You?

Clarity is the first step to conversion.

If you sell cake, then tell people you sell cake.

No one likes to be misunderstood and yet too many startups struggle with simply describing -- in plain and simple terms -- what they do.

B2B customers are more than 2x as likely to consider a brand that shows personal value over business value, because buyers perceive little difference in the business value that the different suppliers can offer.

It is just a question of what you value more: your money or your time.

You will invest thousands of dollars to do a project with a service like Upright Brand. For everyone else your best bets are freelancers and friends.

Sometimes a freelancer is just the right price.

There are certainly a lot of people that will sell you twenty brand names for $5 on Fiverr for instance. You might not get the best work and you might have to repeat the project a few times to find someone you like, but good enough can be better than never ever...sometimes.

You also might have a friend that can help for free.

Maybe your friend worked at an agency or a big consumer goods company. Friends can be a great resource but watch out for processes that take too long. Be sure you have to capacity to execute their magnificent plan whenever it is finished.

If your free advisors start talking about helping you run focus groups, creating a full brand book, or working on this “as a side project once a week”, just remember that there is a 16 year old with an iPhone in Australia that is about to launch the same idea.

Will you be able to live with yourself if you get beaten to market by someone who doesn’t pay rent and has their mother doing their laundry?

So if you have the time and hustle maybe you can make it work, but for those of you who value your time more than money, here is another option:

Unlike some folks, we don’t believe you build a new brand around a random name or using the same tactics that conglomerates invented to sell us toothpaste.

New brands just don’t have credibility or time to waste.

Upright Brand helps founders clarify their first brand platform – a name, a story, a look, and a feel – so you can get to testing, fundraising, and finding customers faster.

Even if you are just a founder with a crazy idea.

Even if you don’t know how to define the word “brand”.

You will come away with the confidence to clearly say who you are, who you are for, and why your fans should care – in simple terms that even your dog will understand.

The easiest way to start is to send us an email telling us why you are great and what you want to accomplish.

Or click the button below and schedule a free, 20min consultation to help clarify your goals.